The emerging generation 2

One of the greatest challenges most parents will ever face is that of relevance. Parents have a tendency to become holed up in their traditional mind-sets with the inability to embrace new perspectives, not just because of their newness but the freshness they bring to the scene. It is this same challenge that the church of today faces.

I’m not here to lament the level of immorality and spiritual illiteracy in the lives of believers today and even some of those in ministry but to ready us, the church, to infiltrate the field of the world and harvest the souls made ready for the reaping by our God.

If we are to reach this generation, we must drop some of our traditional methods and embrace fresh new ideas that are more productive for today. You need to understand that I’m not asking you to drop the timeless truths of God’s word for newer, snazzier, more hip philosophies. Definitely not! I’m simply advocating that we present timeless truth in today’s expressions.

There’s a serious need for people to enter into the kingdom of God. It is only after someone has been born that he can now grow right? Most of the times, we tend to put the cart before the horse. The devil’s strategy in the last days is simple-Get as many in to hell, as you can, whichever way you can! He employs what someone has fondly called a mass market strategy. The devil doesn’t care if you don’t understand what you are getting into. He just makes sure you get into it first and then we’ll sort out the details later. Would it be blasphemous if we employed the same strategy? Before you crucify me, didn’t Jesus refer to the kingdom of God as a drag-net bringing in all kinds of fish (Matthew 13:47-49)? Besides isn’t that the same thing God did to Adam? He put him in the garden after creating everything and asked him to explore.

Paul, that great apostle, said he became all things to all men so that by any means he would win some of them (1 Corinthians 9:22). Would it be sacrilegious for us to try and do everything in our power (and technology) to reach all men for God? Or should we keep hoping they would come to church one day and give their lives to Christ?